Rauf KUBAYEV
Рауф КУБАЕВ
Raouf KOUBAEV
Eduard TOPOL
Эдуард ТОПОЛЬ
Edouard TOPOL
Munid ZAKIROV
Мунид ЗАКИРОВ
Mounid ZAKIROV
Russia, 2008, 83mn 
Colour, fiction
On The Brink I Stay
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На краю стою

 

 A la frontière

 Na krayu stoyu

 
Directed by : Rauf KUBAYEV (Рауф КУБАЕВ), Eduard TOPOL (Эдуард ТОПОЛЬ), Munid ZAKIROV (Мунид ЗАКИРОВ)
Writing credits : Eduard TOPOL (Эдуард ТОПОЛЬ)
 
Cast
Fatikh JALALOV (Фатых ДЖАЛАЛОВ)
Ravshvana KURKOVA (Равшана КУРКОВА)
Artur SMOLYANINOV (Артур СМОЛЬЯНИНОВ)
Svetlana USTINOVA (Светлана УСТИНОВА)
 
Cinematography : Arсhil AKHVLEDIANY (Арчил АХВЛЕДИАНИ)
Production design : Sergey_2 OVCHINNIKOV (Сергей_2 ОВЧИННИКОВ), Yevgeni SUYUNOV (Евгений СУЮНОВ)
Music : Maksim DUNAEVSKY (Максим ДУНАЕВСКИЙ)
Sound : Vladimir LITROVNIK (Владимир ЛИТРОВНИК)
Produced by : Eduard TOPOL (Эдуард ТОПОЛЬ)
Production : Libra Production (Либра продакшн)
 
Plot synopsis
A frontier guard Andrei Stakhov found a hiding place for a big amount of heroin, thus closing the largest trafficking channel through Afghan border. Bandits who had suffered enormous losses, decided to execute him. By a miracle Stakhov escaped death but became disabled for the rest of his life. Now he is an outlaw of the town where each citizen is engaged in drug dealing. Nevertheless he manages to revenge himself, to unmask the most powerful drug mafia and find love. The film tells about love, brevity and faithfulness that help the protagonist to struggle for life and dream. Prize The Golden Phoenix at the Smolensk Film Festival
Prize for Best Actor, Prize for the Best interpretation of the humane moral beauty, Audience Award at the International Festival of War & Patriotic Films named after S.Bondarchuk «Volokolamsky Rubezh»
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2011
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2009
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2008